| Money made or paid |
INTEREST |
| More unsightly |
UGLIER |
| Moulding on a wall |
COVING |
| Object or newspaper story |
ARTICLE |
| Particular place or position |
LOCATION |
| Regards with disgust and hatred |
ABHORS |
| Separate object or unit |
ITEM |
| Shrewdness, astuteness |
ACUMEN |
| Slaughterhouse for animals |
ABATTOIR |
| Source, root |
ORIGIN |
| Standard, conventional |
NORMAL |
| System of words |
LANGUAGE |
| Talking points |
TOPICS |
| Tool with double blades |
SCISSORS |
| Type of monkey and a blood component |
RHESUS |
| Wrote one's signature on the back of a cheque, say |
ENDORSED |